We have a Github for code and a Figma for design. Do we have such a decentralized way to design the narrative? Code and Design Peter Levin wrote in a recent post for Andreessen Horowitz and called the current decade as the decade of design. Peter writes: “Years ago, GitHub (where I was also on the board) reinvented the category of source code …
Read MoreWe have time today. This was not the way we wanted time for ourselves but let us accept that we have something and in such abundance that people in the last few generations could never afford to have. We have time. People from almost all walks of the society (except those in the healthcare and related disciplines, and in police …
Read MoreThe bottomline for a digital design services agency is to ‘win a project’ and start drawling lines and writing code as soon as possible. This is a conventional ‘services mindset’ where we are hired to do a job — to design and deliver a product. By contract and by conventions, agencies have nothing to do with product’s success, there are no stakes involved, …
Read MoreWe have two days to go for OUTCOME, and it has been pretty exciting last few weeks as a build up for the day. As part of promotions via emails and on social media (see Twitter), I have extensively shared many reasons and use cases for why OUTCOME is so relevant to almost every product team in the region. This …
Read MoreReplaying the year 2018 reel and I feel as if it was a complex yet an entertaining movie. 1. Conversations I continued my series of inviting guests for content conversations and I totally enjoyed the three episodes in 2018 — one each with Scott Abel, Jess Sand, and Lauren Lucchese. I see these coming in March 2019 for more guests. 2. Hosted …
Read MoreThe startup ecosystem noise gets louder and is more widely distributed now in Chandigarh. I love the way students are now entrepreneuring their muscles from idea to pitching, and sometimes prototyping on their way. My co-working space CEED gives me regular chances to talk to Chitkara University students. Many a times, they surprise me with their startupreneural questions. Also, CEED …
Read MoreTeodora Petkova is a philologist fascinated by the metamorphoses of text on the Web. See some of her select writings for Ontotext, and know more about her fascinating insights at her website. Teodora invites guests for a dialogue on web, text, content, and the mesh that weaves meaning and context around information and its variables. Recently, she invited me for …
Read MoreI read Joe Cutler’s post on products’ failures in Its Product’s Fault! Right?, on Medium. It has been widely discussed that the primary reasons of startups’ failures are around product-market fit (or as Brian Balfour says, market-product fit). This is in addition to other factors including weak leadership, flawed product execution, or lack of funds. Market In February this year, CBInsights published …
Read MoreIn my last two content strategy projects with two startups, I realized very early that different teams in either startup did not have a clear understanding of what the brand wanted to do, and why. My second and then third meetings cleared off some dust but I could sense that the message was not absorbed effectively. It was NOT a …
Read MoreI saw this tweet by techvibes on the best ten tech jobs in 2018, in Canada. Tech Roles Dominate the Ten Best Jobs of 2018 https://t.co/gUspNH05vS #cdntech pic.twitter.com/oSX2q3nVtn — Techvibes (@techvibes) May 6, 2018 I saw the post and the list reads as: Machine Learning Engineer – $97,796 Full Stack Developer – $82,711 Development Operations (DevOps) Engineer – $98,878 Internal Medicine …
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